Delinquency: Correlating variables

Andrew, June M.

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“…Most prominent among these variables are socioeconomic status, parental marital status, familial criminality, and social support available to the family (8,24,110). Not only will due consideration of client characteristics provide clear guidelines for interpreting research, it will also aid prescriptive application of studied therapies and provide credible, useful information for juvenile justice policy makers.…”

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“…A review of the delinquency literature, however, suggests that number of offenses, type of offense, and past history of delinquent behavior can mediate treatment effects (28,86). In addition, factors such as gender, age, socioeconomic status, race, family makeup, and parental marital status have also been correlated with delinquent behavior and legal status (8,24,110). Any direct generalization of results from treatment of a single subject group to all delinquents is unwarranted and could be misleading.…”

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Family Therapy with Delinquents: A Critical Review of the Literature

1986

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A critical review of the theoretical and outcome studies on family therapy with delinquents is presented. Assessment of the theoretical developments reveals that families of delinquents may be distinguishable from other families by their interactional sequences and processes. The available outcome studies within the field indicate that family therapy is viable for interventions with this population, with behavioral, structural, strategic, and communication approaches receiving the most support, but more specific and robust evidence is still needed. Trends in the research and critical issues are identified and used to provide suggestions for future research and practice.

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Section: Factors That Influence the Effectiveness Of Family Therapymentioning

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Family Therapy with Delinquents: A Critical Review of the Literature

1986

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“…Lowenstein (1977) and Olweus (1978) have shown that bullies in school are generally below average in academic skills. Much evidence also exists relating poor academic achievement to delinquency (Andrew, 1981;Hogenson, 1974;Loeber & Dishion, 1983;Wadsworth, 1979). Furthermore, in one study specifically directed at disentangling the effects of IQ and achievement, Feshbach and Price (1984) found only a negligible relation between IQ and aggression.…”

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Intellectual functioning and aggression.

Huesmann¹,

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Yarmel³

1987

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

148

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In a 22-year study, data were collected on aggressiveness and intellectual functioning in more than 600 subjects, their parents, and their children. Both aggression and intellectual functioning are reasonably stable in a subject's lifetime and perpetuate themselves across generations and within marriage pairs. Aggression in childhood was shown to interfere with the development of intellectual functioning and to be predictive of poorer intellectual achievement as an adult. Early 1Q was related to early subject aggression but did not predict changes in aggression after age 8. On the other hand, differences between early IQ and intellectual achievement in middle adulthood were predictable from early aggressive behavior. A dual-process model was offered to explain the relation between intellectual functioning and aggressive behavior. We hypothesized that low intelligence makes the learning of aggressive responses more likely at an early age, and this aggressive behavior makes continued intellectual development more difficult.Aggression has been demonstrated to be a reasonably stable characteristic from childhood to middle adulthood (Eron, Huesmann, Dubow, Romanoff, & Yarmel, 1987; Huesmann, Eron, Lefkowitz, & Walder, 1984;Olweus, 1979). Furthermore, aggression is a characteristic that perpetuates itself within a family system. Aggressive people are more likely to marry aggressive spouses and raise aggressive children (Huesmann et ah, 1984). However, aggression cannot be considered in isolation from other developing behaviors and characteristics (Eron, 1982). In particular, one must consider the relation between aggression and intellectual functioning.A number of studies have revealed a relation between aggression and poor performance on standardized tests of intellectual ability (Burt, 1925;Caplan, 1965;Glueck & Glueck, 1950;Gordon, 1975;Merrill, 1947;Siebert, 1962). The level of intellectual functioning in delinquents generally falls within the lower half of the IQ distribution, with the average IQ of courtinvolved delinquents 10-12 points below the mean IQ of nondelinquents. This relation, however, may be somewhat inflated because bright delinquents may not be apprehended as often as delinquents of lower intellectual functioning. When the genders are examined separately, one usually finds the same degree of relation between intellectual functioning and delinquency in boys and girls (Jensen, 1980), though boys are much more aggressive on the average.Although socioeconomic factors affect both intellectual abilities and aggressiveness in a child, it has been shown that, indeThe research described here was supported by Grant MH-34410 to Leonard D. Eron and MH-38683 to L. Rowell Huesmann from the National Institute of Mental Health.This article is based on a presentation in the symposium "Consistency of Aggression and Its Correlates over Twenty Years" at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Anaheim, California, in August, 1983. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed...

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“…It is beyond the scope of this article to provide an in depth description of the nature of these factors. For a detailed discussion of the factors summarized below, see Robbins (1966); Ganzer and Sarason (1973); Lober and Dishion (1983); or Andrew (1981).…”

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Determining the Primacy of Substance Use Disorders Among Juvenile Offenders

Stone

1990

Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly

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Any thorough evaluation of a juvenile offender should include an assessment of the role alcohol and drugs have played in the offending behavior as well as in the youth's overall adjustment. The dilemma facing an evaluator is how to best determme primacy. That is, is the youth's behavioral disorder primarily a function of substance use, or is the abuse of chemicals primarily a manifestation of an overall deviant lifestyle? The goal of this article is to offer a framework for understanding the diagnostic issues relevant to juvenile offending and substance abuse as well as to provide a guide for treatment planning. A summary of diagnostic risk factors for both substance abuse and serious juvenile offending are concretized into a decision tree meaningful to the diagnostic and treatment selection process at hand.

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Delinquency: Correlating variables

Cited by 18 publications

References 48 publications

Family Therapy with Delinquents: A Critical Review of the Literature

Family Therapy with Delinquents: A Critical Review of the Literature

Intellectual functioning and aggression.

Determining the Primacy of Substance Use Disorders Among Juvenile Offenders

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